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OCTOBER 2021 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 39 Automation is not planned from lay-up to lamination. Currently this is a manual convey- or and plans call for it to remain that way. Lam- ination material transfer is 20 minutes, all by hand. ere is no networking of information between lay-up and lamination, and it will re- main that way. e proposed new automation (Table 3) is an optical layer registration system that does not need holes; it welds (induction melting) each layer together to form the stack. Set-up information, part number-WO ID, tolerances, and logs are created from a barcode reader on the material tray. A summar y of these two steps is seen in Figure 6. ese steps are repeated for as many work centers as you have designated for improve- Figure 6: Work center requirements definition.